July 2017 - Issue no 39

HF-Chronicle

Khushali Mubarak to Ismaili Community, celebrating Imamat Day & Diamond Jubilee of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan and warmest wishes to Ismaili Muslims across Pakistan

On the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee (DJ) Celebration of the Imamat of Prince Karim Aga Khan, I would like to extend my congratulations to colleagues and the entire Ismailia community. Inspired by the vision and wisdom of His Highness, the Foundation has positioned itself to take forward the development priorities of institution building and education as identified by His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan. This month, we took proactive steps to strengthen our partnerships especially with Hashoo Group through a new tradition of meeting, i.e. by holding an ‘Eid Milan’ event. The purpose was to share the results of the Group’s CSR funds distributed through various programs for the benefit of the poor and vulnerable across Pakistan. The other objective of this event was to express HF’s gratitude for all the support provided by the various offices of the Group towards the implementation of its Corporate Social Responsibility. This was the first step towards such engagement and Insha’Allah many more will follow.On the program front, new partnerships are coming into force, HF recently organized a

joint event titled ‘Working Together for Sustainable Mountain Development: Private Sector Engagement for Climate Action in Pakistan’ with International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC). This event was instrumental in recognition of HF as a serious development actor in the sector and in bringing together government agencies, private sector and development actors in exchanging innovative ideas for fostering effective collaboration for climate action in mountain areas of Pakistan. On the other hand, many of our trainees from various skill development projects competed in national and regional skills competitions and successfully achieved top positions.This issue will give you a glimpse of the recent activities and happenings.Happy Reading!

The Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA) elected its Board of Governors for the period 2017-2019. Arif Rahman (Senior Manager Environment and Climate Change) was elected along with Dr. Abid Suleri (CEO SDPI) to represent Pakistan on the board of CANSA.CANSA is a network of over 175 member organization from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Afghanistan working in the Climate Change domain.

Ayesha KhanCountry Director Hashoo Foundation

UpdatesAn overview of Hashoo Foundation

Hashoo Foundation and ICIMOD jointly organized an event “Working Together for Sustainable Mountain Development: Engaging Private Sector For Climate Action in the Mountain Areas of Pakistan “

Eid milan party organized by Hashoo Foundation

Learning enrichment camp concludes with closing ceremony

Trainees of Food Preparation & Culinary Arts under NAVTTC skills development project bagged top positions at regional skills competition held at Peshawar

Hashoo Foundation domestic skill workers ranked first in regional skills competition organized by NAVTTC at Islamabad

Updates

Eid milan party was organized by HF education team at Hashoo Foundation School, Namboral, Murree

UpdatesPartnership strengthened with Popinjay company, ROC team gave detailed orientation about HF intervention in handicraft and its potential to the their representative

Hashoo Foundation, Chitral Chamber of Commerce and CCDN agreed to promote and work together for the progress of tourism, art and crafts and hoteling skills

Exposure visit was arranged to Jinnah Park Rawalpindi for the kids of Learning Enrichment Camp

HF Education team completed the distribution of Rotary books from container 6-10

Girls’ education & challenges. Article written by Mehr Parwar- Education advocacy program officer, Hashoo Foundation

Diamond Jubilee celebrated in honor of His Highness Aga Khan IV at regional office Gilgit

One of the commitments of National Education Policy 2009 is ‘Pro-moting equity in education with the aim to eliminate social exclusion and provision of increased opportunities to marginalized groups, particularly girls’. Further the education policy states that Pakistan shall endeavor “to remove illiteracy and provide free and compulsory secondary education within minimum possible period” Reforms have been made to improve the situation of girls’ education. Read more...

ActivitiesCooking day for Little Master Chefs at regional office Rawalpindi

Education team visited HF Model School Riyounty & Numbromal Murree, distributed the story books to Promote reading habits among students

Hashoo Foundation trainees demostrated their wood carving and carpentary skills at Zonal Skills Competition organized by NAVTTC at Gilgit

Training under PSDF’s project commenced at Lahore & Rawalpindi Human Development Resource Center

ActivitiesSensitization and reading sessions conducted by HF education team in Oghi and Mingora - KPK

Under Women Training For Home Based Livestock (WTHBL) project HF has started its 2nd batch of 400 females at Attock & Chakwal. WTHBL team is imparting training on different breeds of animals and their role in household economy

Hashoo Foundation participated in seminar organized by Women Chamber of Commerce & Industry Peshawar Division (WCCIPD) for the Empowerment of KP’s Women. The seminar was focused on the mantra of CONNECT and PROSPER.